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ARMENIANS CELEBRATE MASS IN CHINA FOR FIRST TIME IN DECADES
By Weekly Staff on December 15, 2014
GUANGZHOU, China (A.W.)--The Armenian community in China gathered at
a church in Guangzhou on Dec. 14 to celebrate mass for the first time
in decades.
A scene from the mass (Photo by Raffi Kabakian)
Bishop Haigazoun Najarian presided over the mass that brought together
dozens of Armenians from Guangzhou, Shanghai, Nanjing, Hong Kong,
and other cities.
A scene from the mass (Photo by Raffi Kabakian)
Bishop Najarian, Primate of the Armenian Diocese of Australia and New
Zealand and Pontifical Legate of All Armenians in India and the Far
East, said he was pleased that decades after the last church mass
was held by the Armenian community in China, Armenians from around
the world who now call China and Hong Kong home have gathered again
to celebrate mass.
The community after the mass.
A small yet vibrant Armenian community existed in Harbin, Shanghai,
and Hong Kong from the late 19th till the mid-20th century. In that
period, Harbin had an Armenian church and Shanghai boasted a vibrant
community center.
Most Armenians left for the Americas or for Soviet Armenia by the
1950s.
Lecture on Armenian community in China
On Dec. 13, scholar Khatchig Mouradian presented his illustrated talk
on the Armenian communities in Harbin and Shanghai from the late 19th
to the mid-20th century. (Click here for detailed report.)
Pulling from memoirs, accounts, archival material, and photographs
from China, Armenia, and missionary archives in the U.S., Mouradian
depicted the life of Armenians from the Caucasus and the Ottoman
Empire who went east in search of opportunity or to escape genocide
and political upheavals.
In August, Mouradian received a Gulbenkian Armenian Studies fellowship
to research the history of the Armenian community in China.
http://armenianweekly.com/2014/12/15/china/
From: Baghdasarian
By Weekly Staff on December 15, 2014
GUANGZHOU, China (A.W.)--The Armenian community in China gathered at
a church in Guangzhou on Dec. 14 to celebrate mass for the first time
in decades.
A scene from the mass (Photo by Raffi Kabakian)
Bishop Haigazoun Najarian presided over the mass that brought together
dozens of Armenians from Guangzhou, Shanghai, Nanjing, Hong Kong,
and other cities.
A scene from the mass (Photo by Raffi Kabakian)
Bishop Najarian, Primate of the Armenian Diocese of Australia and New
Zealand and Pontifical Legate of All Armenians in India and the Far
East, said he was pleased that decades after the last church mass
was held by the Armenian community in China, Armenians from around
the world who now call China and Hong Kong home have gathered again
to celebrate mass.
The community after the mass.
A small yet vibrant Armenian community existed in Harbin, Shanghai,
and Hong Kong from the late 19th till the mid-20th century. In that
period, Harbin had an Armenian church and Shanghai boasted a vibrant
community center.
Most Armenians left for the Americas or for Soviet Armenia by the
1950s.
Lecture on Armenian community in China
On Dec. 13, scholar Khatchig Mouradian presented his illustrated talk
on the Armenian communities in Harbin and Shanghai from the late 19th
to the mid-20th century. (Click here for detailed report.)
Pulling from memoirs, accounts, archival material, and photographs
from China, Armenia, and missionary archives in the U.S., Mouradian
depicted the life of Armenians from the Caucasus and the Ottoman
Empire who went east in search of opportunity or to escape genocide
and political upheavals.
In August, Mouradian received a Gulbenkian Armenian Studies fellowship
to research the history of the Armenian community in China.
http://armenianweekly.com/2014/12/15/china/
From: Baghdasarian